Stranglers and Bandits
A Historical Anthology of Thuggee
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 8 January 2009
- ISBN 9780195698152
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 225x146x25 mm
- Weight 523 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This anthology brings together primary sources from the period of British involvement with thuggee, the controversial cult of ritual highway murderers 'discovered' by the British in early nineteenth-century India. It provides an insight into the production of colonial knowledge, and includes a wide range of popular accounts and academic assessments on the shifting interpretations of this custom over the past two centuries.
MoreLong description:
Thuggee, the controversial cult of ritual highway murderers 'discovered' by the British in early nineteenth-century India, is one of the most sensational and contentious practices in South Asian history. This anthology brings together primary sources from the period of British involvement with thuggee many of which have long languished in the archives. It provides an insight into the production of colonial knowledge and explores how far the authentic voices of the
accused thugs could be discerned in the detailed interviews and interrogations conducted by the British. The volume also includes a wide range of popular accounts and academic assessments from 1824 to 2006 shedding light on the shifting interpretations of this custom over the past two
centuries.
This book is an immensely useful reader, primarily for all those interested in the history of the British Raj and the disinformation and repression dynamics functional to the Imperial aims of control and exploitation ... historiographers, students and scholars of Indian or South Asian history will find in this book a very useful compendium of sources addressing the many facets of this intriguing phenomenon
